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ThinkFilm: Following an eclectic path

2006 boxoffice: $10.6 million

ThinkFilm unveiled 21 films last year, and its biggest grosser also was its biggest critical hit, "Half Nelson," directed by Ryan Fleck and starring Ryan Gosling. Boasting stellar performances, the film grossed $2.7 million. ThinkFilm also bought the Comedy Central-series adaptation "Strangers With Candy" from Warner Independent Pictures and took it to $2 million. ThinkFilm rang up slightly more than $1.9 million from the sexually explicit "Shortbus" and another $1.6 million for the much less controversial British comedy "Keeping Mum." But more than a third of ThinkFilm's 21 releases grossed in the five figures, including its day-and-date Web/theater release with ClickStar, "10 Items or Less," despite such stars as Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman and Nick Nolte.

ThinkFilm releases

Date

Boxoffice

Fateless

1/6

$0.2

Big Question

3/17

0.002

The Zodiac

3/17

0.04

Awesome: I Fuckin' Shot That!

3/23

0.2

95 Miles

4/7

0.002

When Do We Eat

4/7

0.4

Down in the Valley

5/5

0.6

The King

5/19

0.3

Loverboy

6/16

0.03

Strangers with Candy

6/30

2.1

I Like Killing Flies

7/28

0.01

Half Nelson

8/11

2.7

10th & Wolf

8/18

0.05

Looking for Kitty

9/1

0.004

Keeping Mum

9/15

1.6

Shortbus

10/4

1.9

Tideland

10/13

0.06

Fuck

11/10

0.02

Candy

11/17

0.04

10 Items or Less

12/1

0.08

Off the Black

12/8

0.02

The Aristocrats

7/29/05

0.02

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Hill

8/17/05

0.03

Protocols of Zion

10/21/05

0.02

The Boys of Baraka

11/30/05

0.3

The boxoffice and market share for each distributor represents tickets sales from Jan. 3, 2006, through Jan. 1, 2007, inclusive. "Films tracked" represents the total number of films, including 2005 releases that generated ticket sales for each distributor. For 2005 releases, only boxoffice returns from 2006 are reported.